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Not the lightest, but great At least give the Clikstand a look. (www.clikstand.com) It's a really stable windscreen, and got high performance marks in BPL's review of acohol stoves a while back. It's on the heavie... |
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Re: Re: Gear dogmas Franco, your 20-30 days a year makes your advice even more valuable to me, since that's about how much I get out, too. I've particularly appreciated your goading and prodding me toward a Ta... |
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Re: Re: Army logic Naturally, the Air Force is interested in the lease. Remember when they first started talking about a neutron bomb? It was defined as a weapon that would kill everyone, but leave the real estate in... |
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12-step program Brett: The nice thing about your program is it can easily be expanded to 14, 16, or 18 steps for those of us who have more serious cases. |
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Army logic Isn't the Army the same folks who, at the height of Vietnam, ran an ad asking "Can you qualify to be an infantryman?"; at the time, walking and talking pretty much did it. (Just a hum... |
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My wife is an enabler My wife has actually financed many of my gear purchases; she didn't intend to, but she did. For years, she'd come home from a shopping trip and tell me how much money she'd saved me. On... |
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Re: Frameless pack under legs as insulation? I'm making a similar move: from a Granite Gear Vapor Trail to its frameless sibling, the Virga. Like you, I always used the pack as lower leg insulation. I haven't fully settled on a met... |
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Re: Water Concerns in Ultralight I'm in a state of flux right now. Six months ago, I was packing light, with a base weight around 14 pounds - which included an MSR Miniworks filter. I've never had the first problem with it... |
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Hubba I own a Hubba, and for the last year or so have been using it as my primary backpacking tent (except for an experiment with tarp and bivy, which in the end I just didn't like.) The thing I l... |
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Re: Re: How about 2 packs? There are a lot of reviews on the Reader Review section of this website. (The overall score of the Virga is a fraction of a point higher than the Mariposa, for whatever it's worth.) There ar... |
All Reader Reviews by Glenn Roberts
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ID SilShelter I've used this off and on for several years, in combination with both the Integral Designs Bug Liner and a bivy sack (most often the ID Salathe.) I've found it to be a versatile, simple shelte... |
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Snow Peak Mini Solo Ti Cookset I got this to replace the Trek 700 pot. Then I became briefly enamored of the Jetboil PCS, which is well-designed but heavy. The Snow Peak Mini-Solo with a spoon and the Snow Peak Gigapower stove weig... |
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Jetboil Personal Cooking System There's a lot to like about this stove. It sips fuel, boils fast, and is well thought out. The cup that protects the base of the pot during transport doubles (triples?) as a measuring cup and a sm... |
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Big Agnes Seedhouse SL1 I got this tent to replace my MSR Hubba because the SL1 is half a pound lighter. It's not quite as convenient to get into and out of as the Hubba, but that's the price you pay for the weigh... |
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Evernew .9 Liter pot Excellent pot - the one I use with an alcohol stove. It's not my first choice with canister stoves, however. It's a short, wide-bottom pot, so it's a bit tippy on the narrow-diameter suppo... |
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MSR Hubba I fully agree with everything Douglas Hus had to say about this tent. It's my tent of choice. However, like most MSR gear, it's heavier than comparable competing products. (I still like MSR ge... |
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Lighten Up! by Don Ladigin This was a good introductory level book - about on the level with the first edition of Harry Roberts' Basic Essentials of Backpacking. (The 2nd and 3rd editions paled in comparison.) Not a lot ... |
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Snow Peak Trek 700 While this pot doesn't have the tight-fitting lid of the MSR Titan kettle, it got everything else right. The capacity is plenty for a single-serving freeze-dried meal, the shape lets it easily dou... |
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Complete Walker by Colin Fletcher The only reason I give this a 5 is because there is no 10. An earlier edition of this book is what taught me how to backpack, and actually set me on the road to constantly trying to lighten my pac... |
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MSR Mini Titan Cookset I'd agree that this is a light, functional cookset. However, it has two flaws that keep it from being a 5: 1) The pots don't have measuring marks. This simple addition would greatly increas... |
